Summary
To push the crime rate below one percent for the rest of the year, the New Founding Fathers of America test a sociological theory that vents aggression for one night in one isolated community. But when the violence of oppressors meets the rage of the others, the contagion will explode from the trial-city borders and spread across the nation.
Cast
Y'lan Noel
Dmitri Cimber
Lex Scott Davis
Nya Charms
Joivan Wade
Isaiah Charms
Steve Harris
Freddy
Mugga
Dolores
Patch Darragh
Arlo Sabian / Chief of Staff
Marisa Tomei
Dr. May Updale / Architect
Luna Lauren Velez
Luisa
Kristen Solis
Selina
Rotimi Paul
Skeletor
Mo McRae
7 & 7
Jermel Howard
Lorenzo
Siya
Blaise
Christian Robinson
Capital A
Derek Basco
Taz
D.K. Bowser
Sharpie
Mitchell Edwards
Kels
Maria Rivera
Anna
Chyna Layne
Elsa
Ian Blackman
Bracken
Melonie Diaz
Juani
Naszir Nance
Terence
Peter Johnson
Pastor Carl Almory
Levy Tran
Roenick
Kevin Carrigan
General Smiley
Desiigner
Kels' Crew / Purge Partygoer
Qurrat Ann Kadwani
News Reporter #3
Cindy Robinson
Announcer (voice)
Cloé Xhauflaire
News Reporter #1
John P. McGinty
News Reporter #2
Claudine Ewing
News Reporter #6
Susanna Guzman
Sister #1
Olivia Frances Williams
Sister #2
Matthew Mesler
Psychologist #1
Geoff Schuppert
Psychologist 2
Deidre Goodwin
Psychologist #3
Nancy Lemenager
Psychologist #4
Neal Gupta
Tech #1
Ricky Needham
Tech #2
Anthony Lee Medina
Tech #3
Mike Cabellon
Tech #4
Nathyia Jackson
Church Guard
Rolando Martín Gómez
Man with Gun
Paul Iatomasi
Security Guard
Katina Forte
Reporter #1
Van Jones
Reporter #2
Jane Fergus
Reporter #4
Alan Pietruszewski
Reporter #5
Aaron Moss
Reporter #6
Logan Crawford
Reporter #7
Gabriel Lopez
Tall Man
Boris Khaykin
Crackhead
Moisés Acevedo
Crazy-Eyed Man
Patrick Byas
Bloody Victim
Shonica Gooden
Female Resident
Shaun Woodland
Male Resident
Jessica Bell
NYPD Officer Wilson (uncredited)
David Breda
Purge Supporter (uncredited)
Korey Bastian
Purge Supporter / Villain (uncredited)
Jason John Beebe
Masked Purger (uncredited)
Robert Bozek
Statistician (uncredited)
Allen Wall
Cameraman Reporter
Aaron V. Williamson
Actor (uncredited)
Bill Smith
Government Purge Supporter (uncredited)
Crew
Director
Gerard McMurray
Characters, Writer
James DeMonaco
Reviews
Ruuz
October 6, 2018
6
_The Purge_ has come a long way since its inception. Originally used as nothing more than an excuse to explain away "Why don't they just call the cops?" in your average home-invasion movie, the original _Purge_ movie had implied classism for the meat of it, and then an actual call to class division right at the end. Since then, the classism, and racism in American society has become a focal B-story to the _Purge_ movies, and now we're in 2018 for the prequel - _The First Purge_ - and those issues are now the whole point of the movie. Some might say that it's because the movies have lost any sense of subtlety, personally I think it's more that the creatives are sick of people missing the point.
_The First Purge_ can't have been an easy thing to give the go-ahead in the current political climate over in the US, but it's important, and moreover, not a bad little film, socio-economic politics aside.
_Final rating:★★★ - I liked it. Would personally recommend you give it a go._
Media
Recommendations
The Purge: Election Year
Psycho-Pass 3: First Inspector
The Purge: Anarchy
The Forever Purge
The Purge
Ant-Man and the Wasp
Skyscraper
All I See Is You
Truth or Dare
Sicario: Day of the Soldado
The Meg
The Nun
I Think We're Alone Now
Wildling
Air Strike
Jurassic World: Fallen Kingdom
Holidays
Goosebumps 2: Haunted Halloween
How It Ends
